Fr.
Donato is the person responsible for the ministry of Justice and
Peace and Integrity of Creation in our Comboni Missionary
Province (the LONDON PROVINCE) which cover Britain and Ireland. He
works together with local ecclesial and non ecclesial groups
involved in Justice and Peace. Once a month he published a
newsletter of information called "Stand Up"
summarizing events, initiatives, concerns, suggestions and
reflections which are very helpful along our journey.
In the website "Stand
Up" for
Justice and Peace he provides material for
consultation, reflection and action for people and groups ready to
accept the challenge.
Dungavel
Immigration Removal Centre has always been at the centre of
protests. Protest on date 13/03/2003 with Bishop John Mone, Bishop
of Paisley and (at the time) President of the Catholic Church's
Justice and Peace Commission. In August 2001 Bishop Mone called on
Scots to view asylum seekers, "as an enrichment to our society
not a challenge to our stability.
At
the Make poverty History march there were so many people together of
different age and social background, elderly people with their
walking stick and babies in the prams, adult and children, boys and
girls, young men and young women of so different beliefs, ethnic
groups, organisations and ideologies and even the two Catholic
Cardinals, Keith Patrick O'Brian (Edinburgh) and Cormac
Murphy-O’Connor (Westminster).
A
few weeks before the meeting of the G8 at the Gleneagles Summit, on
my way back to Carmyle from a mission appeal in Aberdeen Diocese, my
curiosity brought me to Gleneagles. I had passed that way several
times, but being in the middle of nowhere, one just keeps one’s
foot on the accelerator and carries on straight forward until one
see the tower of “William Wallace” on a hill of Stirling.
Leaders
of the Group of Eight industrialised nations on Friday vowed to
double aid to Africa to $50bn a year and have promised a $3bn
finance package for the Palestinian Authority "over the next
few years". Speaking after the leaders signed the final
communiqué, Tony Blair said that the money came with the condition
of the commitment of African leaders to "democracy and good
governance and the rule of law."
Fr.
Donato is the person responsible for the ministry of Justice and
Peace and Integrity of Creation in our Comboni Missionary
Province (the LONDON PROVINCE) which cover Britain and Ireland. He
works together with local ecclesial and non ecclesial groups
involved in Justice and Peace. Once a month he published a
newsletter of information called "Stand Up"
summarizing events, initiatives, concerns, suggestions and
reflections which are very helpful along our journey.
In the website "
Dungavel
Immigration Removal Centre has always been at the centre of
protests. Protest on date 13/03/2003 with Bishop John Mone, Bishop
of Paisley and (at the time) President of the Catholic Church's
Justice and Peace Commission. In August 2001 Bishop Mone called on
Scots to view asylum seekers, "as an enrichment to our society
not a challenge to our stability.
At
the Make poverty History march there were so many people together of
different age and social background, elderly people with their
walking stick and babies in the prams, adult and children, boys and
girls, young men and young women of so different beliefs, ethnic
groups, organisations and ideologies and even the two Catholic
Cardinals, Keith Patrick O'Brian (Edinburgh) and Cormac
Murphy-O’Connor (Westminster).
A
few weeks before the meeting of the G8 at the Gleneagles Summit, on
my way back to Carmyle from a mission appeal in Aberdeen Diocese, my
curiosity brought me to Gleneagles. I had passed that way several
times, but being in the middle of nowhere, one just keeps one’s
foot on the accelerator and carries on straight forward until one
see the tower of “William Wallace” on a hill of Stirling.